Surviving families receive insurance premium repayments during job-related death reviews

Survivor retirement payments include repayment of covered health insurance premiums during the wait for a job-related death decision. This covers spouses, domestic partners, and dependent children of covered retirement-system members whose deaths meet the referenced law's rules for being killed on the job. Covered plans include employer health insurance, COBRA coverage that continues an employer plan, and Medicare hospital and medical coverage. This provision says a Medicare-eligible member must enroll and stay enrolled in both Medicare Part A and Part B to remain eligible for repayment. The covered period runs from the member's death to the decision that the death happened in the course of employment.

Survivor retirement payments reimburse Medicare Part A hospital insurance premiums and Part B medical insurance premiums. This covers surviving spouses, domestic partners, and dependent children of covered retirement-system members killed on the job under the referenced eligibility rules. Surviving spouses, domestic partners, and dependent children entitled to Medicare must enroll and stay enrolled in both parts to remain eligible for reimbursement. This provision applies going forward; the retroactive rule covers only the waiting-period and other-insurance provisions.

Retirement payments reimburse premiums for other medical insurance when the member is ineligible for waiting-period reimbursement. The provision refers to a retirement-system member who does not qualify for reimbursement under the waiting-period provision. Repayment cannot exceed the amount reimbursed for COBRA premiums. COBRA lets people continue an employer health plan. The retroactive rule applies to premium payments made after June 10, 2010.